The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-03-26
RELIGIOUS.

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Gpatient watcher over all
II broken lives may best complete
Thy circle, let our fragments fall
Car spencer.
For The heart grows rich In giving;
All its wealth Is living grain;
Seeds which mlidew IN the garner,
Scattered, will ill with gold the plain.
HRS. Charles
Faith is The grave Of eare.--Rrna'-
asaeher
Time is infinitely long, and every
day is vessel into which much may
be poured If we Gil it up to the brim.
~ Goethe.
The word If the Lord is suited to
each individual as If be were the sol
itary occupant Of the universe.
Receive Christ with all your heart.
As there is nothing in Christ that
may be refused, so there is nothing in
YOU from which be must be excluded.
The first step in debt is like the first
step ii falsehood, almost involving
the necessity of proceeding in the
same course, debt following debt as lie
follows lie.
Holiness is the best thing that God
himself can bestow upon us. True
evangelical holiness--that is, Christ
formed 10 the hearts Of believers-is
the very cream and quintessence Of
the gospel.-Cadworth
The desire to say some great thing
has prevented the uttorance of many
a wholesome word, and anxiety to ac-
complish some wonderful work has
crushed 10 the bud many an humble
deed of exceeding grace and sweet
ness.--Frederic r. MarDin.
Jesus is the purest among the
mighty, the miglitiest among the pure,
Who with His pierced hand has raised
up empires from their foundations,
turned the stream OF history from its
old channel, and still continues to rule
and guide the ages. j. Richter.
They that are in God, being united
10 him through Christ, can never by
any power be separated from him.
Death, that is the great DISCOVER of
all other unions, civil and natural, is
so far from untrying this, that it con-
sumates it; it conveys the soul into the
nearest and fullest enjoyment of God,
who is life, where it shall not need to
desire as it were from a distance; it
shall then be at the spriDg.head, and
shall be satisfied with His love for
ever.-ArchbishoT1 Leighton.
Difficulty Is a severe instructor, set
over us by the supreme ordinance of
parental Guardian and Legislator,
who knows us better than we know
ourselves. And he loves us better too.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our
antagonist is our helper This am-
icable conflict with difficulty helps us
to an intimate acquaintance with our
object, and compels us 10 consider it
in all its relations. 1t will not suffer
us 10 be superficial.-Berke.
We may say that, partly from our
own badness and partly from theirs,
all mankind, kindred and strangers,
are n trial to our patience IN some way
or other. When we are engaged with
others in any kind of work, or are con
stantly in society Of others, our pa
thence is often exercised. We en-
counter stupid, ill-tempered, or impor,
tnnate people, and we do not remrm-
Der to look at each such meeting as II
gift from God, who is going to watch
how we behave, aud visit us accord
iugly.-F W. FaJer,
Awake up now, 0 thou faithful and
deyout soul and 60 after thy Re
deemer! Follow his footsteps, gather
up diligently the drops of his blood,
aud sprinkle them with true Faith in
thine hearth Take up the bundle of
myrrh, and lay it at thy breast, o
thou noble bride and spouse Of Christi
His Passion that he suffered for thee,
write in thy mind! Learn to die to
all sin, from myself and from the
world, that thou mayest be cruciGed
unto the world, and the world be cru
Gifted unto thee.--Miles CoVerdale.
Thcsimplicity of the words of Jesus
is like that of water and air. The lit
tie child breathes the air, and qucnches
his thirst with the water. But when
we analyze air we find it to be a com
plex substance, and when we analyze
water we find it to be also complex
substance. So we may eat and drink
the words of Jesus, and be fed by
them; yet when VIC study them we
find depth of meaning which makes
them of an inexhaustiblc interest to
the imagination and the understand
ing. So the simplicity Of Christ's doc
trinc is not meagre simplicity on the
surface of our thought, 10 be fully
comprehended 10 a moment, but deep,
complex, and far reaching. Free.
man Clarke.
A poor blind girl once brought to q
clergyman thirty shillings for a mis-
sionary society. He, surprised that
she should offer him so large sum,
said, "You. u poor blind girl you
cannot afford to give SO much as this"
." am indeed sir, as yon say, blind
CIR, but not so poor, perhaps, as you
may suppose me 10 be, and ] can prove
to You that i can better afford to give
these thirty shillings than those girls
who have eyes" The clergyman was,
Of course, deeply interested, and said,
II shall be glad 10 know how you
make it ont" "Sir, ] am basket
maker, and being blind, j can make
them as well 10 the dark as in the
light. Now, ] am sure that during
last winter, when II was SO dark, Il
must have cost those girls that have
eyes more than thirty shillings to buy
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